Cyprus to back out of Russia-Cypriot agreement on visa-free travel?

As of today, the Russian foreign ministry has not been notified by the Cypriot side that it wants to back out of the agreement on visa-free travel between the two countries, the Information and Press Department of the Russian foreign ministry reported on Monday.

Asked to comment on the possibility of Cyprus's introduction of a visa regime for Russian citizens, a source in the department said the agreement on visa-free travel Russia and Cyprus had reached in 1995 was still in force.

"It is generally accepted throughout the world that the initiator of a visa-free regime must notify the other side about its intention to denounce a visa-free agreement three months in advance," the source explained. So far, the foreign ministry has not received any such notifications from Cyprus.

Not that long ago, American soldiers would train their skills to counter insurgent and partisan military organizations. These days, they are trained to show resistance to the regular army of a potential adversary